Did I ever tell you that years ago I escaped
\nthe icy sidewalks and falling snow to buy my first<\/p>\n
for a girl named Judy? In Kresge\u2019s five-and-dime?
\nEarly dark made the front windows into slabs of black,<\/p>\n
so with card in hand, I drifted down the aisle
\nto my favorite spot past the pink lingerie, and dreamed<\/p>\n
at a tank teeming with goldfish, watching them
\nspurt and glide, balance perfectly still, before facing<\/p>\n
that brittle outside dark again. Oh, don\u2019t worry,
\nyou\u2019ll have chocolate, and roses too, but remember<\/p>\n
how once, windward of the jetty, we lost the engine?
\nI drop the anchor quick but those quarry rocks,<\/p>\n
blacker for the sun and pale blue water, keep coming
\ncloser and closer. My eyes race down the rope<\/p>\n
through thirty feet of water clear as dreamfright
\nto where the anchor flukes are plowing the bottom,<\/p>\n
then catch on coral, halting those ragged black rocks
\nonly ten feet from our hull. Then it was you<\/p>\n
who lifted the cowl, found where the coil
\nwire frayed, and gave us fire again.<\/p>\n
So we lingered, engine idling, to watch beneath the boat
\na huge school of spade fish shaped and striped<\/p>\n
like those french angels our son used to have in his tank.
\nSuddenly they were gone.<\/p>\n
Which is to say, you always take me back
\nto teenage gold and the primary colors<\/p>\n
of coral and communal fish, that pale blue
\nwater on which our down-looking faces float,<\/p>\n
slide into each other and eclipse,
\nas in a dream\u2014one more way<\/p>\n
that we merge, rarely guessing how often we drift
\ninto, away from, around, and through.<\/p>\n
for Phyllis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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